Example sentences of "[conj] it had [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Compared to all the other seven departments the ‘ stagnated ’ had the lowest score on all dimensions except ‘ challenge ’ ( where it was in the middle ) and ‘ conflicts ’ ( where it had the highest score ) . |
| 2 | The SSP 's policy was close to that of the Socialist League although it had a strong pacifist section and remained hostile to Communism . |
| 3 | The assessors chose 116a for their schedules which , although it had a flat elevation to Parliament Street , had the large internal quadrangle which was ultimately incorporated into the executed building . |
| 4 | In India , the Congress Party , although it had a socialist wing , was to a large extent a middle-class independence movement ; and the partition of India after the ending of British rule created in Pakistan a state dominated by landowners and the military , and in India a liberal democratic regime in which there was a mixture of socialist and capitalist elements . |
| 5 | ‘ Here we are — a testament to the work of Woodline Design since its inception , although it had a different title then . ’ |
| 6 | But although it had the standard minute membership and tatty newspaper hawked erratically round student unions , shopping precincts and Tube stations , Big Flame was different . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll find it , ’ I yelled back at him , then slipped an old Simply Red tape into the cassette just to annoy him , although it had the added advantage that I could n't hear him any more . |
| 8 | THE London Ambulance Service said yesterday that it had no immediate plans to revert to its gremlin-plagued computer call-out system . |
| 9 | The government initially claimed that it had no prior notice of the Commission 's intention to initiate proceedings , but it was later disclosed that this had been the subject of correspondence between the Commission and the Department of Transport . |
| 10 | The agency claimed that , having stated as recently as Sept. 17 that it had no unreleased BNL material , it had since discovered the existence of a series of transmissions from the CIA 's Rome station which indicated that the Rome headquarters of BNL had authorized some of the Iraqi loans . |
| 11 | But because Hinkley C was seen as a virtual ‘ replica ’ of the Sizewell design , the NII had made it clear from the start that it had no major reservations . |
| 12 | In conference with Gerald Gardiner , subsequently Lord Chancellor , who had somewhat late in the day raised his flag as a member of the Labour Party , it was decided that the best course of action was for the Labour Party to be asked to be represented by Gardiner at the Vassall Tribunal and to inform Radcliffe that it had no additional witness to come to him . |
| 13 | After the ceremony , she and Ludovico went to Chiesa Santo Spirito , at the end of their road , where Ludovico had arranged for them to be blessed , explaining to her that it had no religious significance and did not endanger her non-Catholic soul . |
| 14 | The government , publishing its reply on the same day , stated that it had no legal liability to pay compensation , rejected the report 's assertions that actions fell short of the standards appropriate to the regulator , and further asserted that the general handling of the licensing of the Barlow Clowes partnership was careful and considerate . |
| 15 | The regulatory role of the Department of Trade and Industry in respect of Barlow Clowes had been sharply criticized in reports both of an independent inquiry ( published on Oct. 20 , 1988 ) , and of the Ombudsman ( published on Dec. 19 , 1989 ) ; on the latter date the government had announced that in the exceptional circumstances it would make ex gratia payments ( totalling some #150,000,000 ) to all investors who had suffered loss , while stressing that it had no legal liability to pay compensation . |
| 16 | Sotheby 's case for being discharged from this hugely expensive and embarrassing case rested on the argument that it was merely the custodian of the treasure , was unaware that its export licences from the Lebanon had been fraudulently acquired , and that it had no further interest in the treasure . |
| 17 | Syria , which signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT ) in 1969 , had previously declined to conclude such an agreement on the grounds that it had no nuclear installations . |
| 18 | At independence in 1961 and during the period immediately afterwards , the new TANU government was concerned that it had no direct voice in the press . |
| 19 | Bulgaria , which had recognized Macedonia in January [ see pp. 38703 ; 38734 ] , amended its position in February by stating that full diplomatic relations would be established only if the republic officially declared that there was no Macedonian minority in Bulgaria and that it had no territorial claims on Bulgaria . |
| 20 | Sabre has stressed that it had no formal link with Clydesale Office Equipment , which has now closed down . |
| 21 | It was disappointing that it had no significant effect on the tachycardia , but this may be helped by more sparing use of hyoscine butylbromide . |
| 22 | Certainly , EDS 's flurry of activity in Italy and Spain over the last few months is proof that it had no dire need of BT to capture the interest of new customers and business partners in the southern reaches of Europe . |
| 23 | Now , the issue here is not whether this was ‘ good ’ or ‘ bad ’ , the motive humanitarian or base , but that it had a tremendous impact upon the agriculture of the Third World at least in Latin America , South and South-east Asia . |
| 24 | Lieutenant Colonel Stewart Menzies , was preparing to clear his desk for one last time and transfer to Sir Hugh 's enormous office overlooking Whitehall , an office so secret that it had a private door and staircase that could not be overlooked . |
| 25 | When Xerox first embarked on benchmarking it helped that it had a Japanese partner , Fuji Xerox , that it could look to for information about Japanese practices . |
| 26 | The seam had been so thoroughly picked that it had a sharp edge . |
| 27 | If , as naïve young hunters , they attacked a brightly coloured prey , bit it and started to chew it , only to discover that it had a foul taste or a poisonous secretion , they would probably remember it for the rest of their lives . |
| 28 | The society will argue at the full hearing that it had a legitimate expectation that it would be consulted by the council . |
| 29 | One could only say of an electron encircling the hydrogen nucleus that it had a certain probability of being found here and a certain probability of being found there . |
| 30 | — ‘ Non , ’ Alyssia said , mastering the French word and deciding that it had a certain ring to it when used in conversation with this particular woman . |